:22:19
Monte Montague is the stunt double
as the mini monarch is airlifted to his jar.
:22:23
If you slow down the soundtrack,
:22:25
you can hear an engineer say
"And the king gets picked up by the ears."
:22:29
Montague was the sleepy policeman
in The Invisible Man.
:22:32
Bride received its only Academy Award
nomination for Best Sound Recording.
:22:37
Kansas DeForest
plays the tiny toe-dancer.
:22:39
Josephine McKim, in blonde wig and fins,
was a 1932 Olympic swim champion.
:22:44
She was also Maureen O'Sullivan's
nude body double
:22:47
in the erotic underwater pas de deux
with Johnny Weissmuller
:22:50
in 1934's Tarzan and His Mate.
:22:53
In the right front bottle, seen from behind,
is Billy Barty as the baby,
:22:57
seated in a highchair, rending
a flower to bits and waving his rattle.
:23:00
Whale went over the top here,
and wisely eliminated the main business.
:23:04
The tyke is described as "looking like
it might develop into Boris Karloff."
:23:08
"I think this baby will grow into something
worth watching", quipped Pretorius.
:23:36
The censors softened Pretorius's
reference to scripture as "fairy tales"
:23:40
to "Bible stories".
:23:42
Thesiger restores blasphemy
with his inimitable reading of the line.
:23:52
A book novelisation
was prepared in England in 1936
:23:55
by author Michael Harrison,
writing as Michael Egremont.
:23:58
Harrison recalls consulting the script and
a single screening - but once was enough.